Jane Bom-Biog/Discog

Jane Bom-Bane performs original songs and poetry to the accompaniment of harmoniums and mechanical hats. She has played at arts centres and festivals up, down and outside the country, worked with Linda Thompson, David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Jerry Dammers (Specials), Rich Hall, Ralph Steadman and David Cunningham (Flying Lizards), appeared solo on Channel 4, BBC 2, STV, Russian State TV, Radio 1,2,3,4 & 5Live, Radio Scotland etc and written music for Steve Hawley's film 'The Man from Porloch' previewed at the NFT. She has produced three solo albums and a palindromic collaboration with Nick Pynn - 'Rotator'.

2005

Awarded 'Spirit of the Fringe 2005' at Edinburgh Festival. Fringe show: The Hat Lady Sings

London Cabaret Convention at the Greenwich Theatre.Broadcast on Radio 3

Regular appearances at Box of Acoustic Delights night in Brighton

Pestalozzi Festival, Hastings

Brighton Fringe show 20.05 20.05 20.05

2004

Touring UK Rural Arts circuit with Jane Bom-Bane's Greatest Hats

Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals

2003

BBC Radio 3:Guest of Kit and the Widow
BBC Radio York
Jane Bom Bane's Greatest Hats : The Shed, Brawby, Yorkshire
Edinburgh, Worthing and Brighton Fringe Festivals
The Bongo Club, Edinburgh
The Old Pier, Portobello
Adur Festival, Shoreham
Time Warp, Soho

2002

Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals - Year of the Palindrome with Nick Pynn.
Album: Rotator currently out on Roundhill Records (order). For review click here

BBC Radio 3: The Verb

Lewes Live Literature Festival

Guest at Barb Jungr's Cafe Prague, Komedia, Brighton

2001

Shows in London and the South West with Kath Tait.

Edinburgh Festival Solo Show Queen of the Funky Harmonium at the Pleasance (see Edinburgh) featured on STV, Radio 4 and BBC World Service... and given the thumbs-up by (the real) Dave Gorman.Currently writing new material with multi-instrumentalist Nick Pynn.

2000

Gigs in France, Newcastle, at the Edinburgh Festival and in London (Blackheath, Soho, Brixton, Norwood) . See news for more to come

1999

Edinburgh Festival: From Bom-Babyhood to Edinburgh Mermaidenhood
Covered by Channel 4
Various gigs in the south–east with Kath Tait, Brighton Festival

1998

Queen Elizabeth Hall: Mirror Man with David Thomas and Linda Thompson
NFT: Performance as part of David Thomas’ Disastodrome
CD track on Mirror Man (Cooking Vinyl)
CD: Jane Bom-Bane I’ve got a goldfish bowl on my head (Wrong Records)
Title song performed live on Clacton beach for Channel 4’s The Divine David
Various UK gigs including The Shed at Brawby previewed on Radio York

1997

Café Graffiti: Underwonderworld 2
Featured twice on The Bigger Breakfast, Live at Edinburgh
BBC2 "Edinburgh Nights", Radio 2, Radio 5Live! and Radio Scotland
Album: Underwonderworld (Wrong)
Bracknell Festival, Glasgow’s Mayfest, Brighton Festival etc.

1996

Music for Steve Hawley’s film The Man from Porlock (harmonium and voice)
Previewed at the NFT
Underwonderworld 1 Edinburgh and various UK dates
Album: It makes me laugh (Wrong)
Video: I’ve Lost My Sheen featured on Ch 4’s "Live TV"

1995

Flowers and Fireworks Edinburgh, London and the south-east
Album: Round-way-wrong Songs (Wrong)
Covered by STV’s Don’t Look Down, Radio 2, Radio Scotland
Gigs in France and Britain

1994

First appearance at Edinburgh Festival as Plain Bom-Bane
Bracknell Festival and various performances in London

Pre –1990’s

Formed and toured with Round-a-way Wrong Chamber
Single /Video: Boy/yoB (Wrong)- produced by David Cunningham/The Flying Lizards
Lead singer with 2Tone band The Swinging Cats
Single: Away/Mantovani (2Tone) Produced by Jerry Dammers
Album track: This are Two-Tone
Various UK gigs
Songs to a small guitar - singing in local Coventry folk clubs